The Sun. — London, England, 1808-09-21 00:00:00

DUTCH PiIPERS. EFIRENBREITSTEINk DALE, SEPT. 8 iS now certain our troops are to join those of the Grand Duke of Hesse, and march to Boulogne. T 4 corps will amount in the whole to 4000 men. The French troops .which are marching. from Saxony and Prussia to France have arrived in great numbers in the vicinity of Franki rt, where they are to ,form a column of 1'2,000 m. 1, and march into the in terior of France. Oth 1' accounts state, however, that they are to halt at Mayence. On account of the celerity with 'which the troops proceed on their march, is impossible to supply them with provi sions and forage at the time required. From the neighbouring arsenals intelligence has been received, that the artificers are working day and night to prepare the necessary ammunition, and th e conscripts and recruits of the- Westphalian army are daily exercised and trained for the field.-- (Haarkm Gaze'te, Sept. 13.) AIEIF AUCTION MART. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and several Aldermen, went in procession from the Mansion -.119 o lay the first ;or Of. a new Euilding, or A.uetion Market, in Bartholomew-lane. The Civic Party were preceded by the City Flags and an ex cellent Band, which performed " God save the King," and a variety of patriotic music. The scaf folding where the building is to be erected was de corated by a flag, and stages were placed for the reception of a great number of spectators, admitted by tickets. The stone, which measured about four cubical feet, and weighed between three and four tons, was suspended over the foundation, and in which a quadrangular cavity was cut to hold the dif. ferent coins usually deposited in the foundation of a public building. About fbur, o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived at the spot, and the ceremony be gan. A glass bottle was produced, a bank note, end several 75. pieces, dollars, crowns, half-crowns, farthings, and other coins, were put into the bottle; the whole were then sealed, and laid in the stone. A copper -plate, engraved with the City Arms, and the following inscription, was next placed over the coin " The first Stone of this Building denominated th e Atm,: tion M art; was laid by the Right' Honourable the Lord Mayor, Jo wl ANSLEY ESE!: oh Tuesd a y, th e zot h o f September, in th e 48th 'rear or the Reign o f hi s M a j esty _ Groact• 1828." The names of the Stewards, Architea, and other persons concerned in the building, were also enui Inerated. The foundation stone was covered with cement by the Lord Mayor, who used a silver trowel upon the occasion. The stone was lowered with a flag over, it, the Band playing " God save the L:ing." Three cheers were given by the workmen and others, and the ceremony was complete. The Procession then left the building, and went to the London Tavern to partake of abs entertainment given upon the occasion. The dinner consisted of every ,n 900404 :.-4.lta , ciolh. : wus retnoved, the Lord Mayor took the Chair. 'Several loyal toasts, and others appropriiite to the institution, were drank with the usual hilarity, and mirth prevailed during the evening. EXTRACT OE A LETTER, DATED GOTTENRCRGH, SEPTEMBER 7, 1808. " It is calculated that the Russians have lost 30,000 men since the commencement of the war in Vinland. A want of provisions, and the intenso cold have been particularly fatal to theki. I can la re you f rom good aUthority that in Aland, G oth -I lod, and Finland; the Swedes have collected and taken about 11,000 stand of arms from the Russians, amongst which there is not one single Russian mus ket, all of them being part of the 20,000 stand fur ititished two years ago by the Swedes to Russia, at i r e ti r l e quest of G reat Britain. 'The troops-encamped d em • e tleighbourtiood of—Ri ga , am said to be nearly ut at alms. .. Under . circumstances is no w onder s'huoucontinue to be overawed by, the French. the" The M arqu i s DE LA ROMANA wrotea letter t o King of DENMARK, and :sent, .him fourteen Da nish prisoners back, because they were carried away osn' b oar d of the transport which brought him to, b weden, a n d had interference, lib era t e d by hi s i nter ( erence ut the letter and the prisoners were refuaed; the Danes stating, that they would no longer receive any. thilt or any persion who had been contaminated by.the society of the British. " The King of SwErizN continues still on the Island of Aland, wher e h e li ves i n the style of CHARLE S the Xllth." We have received several letters from Cadiz of the 20th ult. Some of these speak in very confident .--"tcrais of the probability of the retreat of the French • ar my being cut off. It is asserted that the brave ' PALAFOX having frustrated the utmost efforts of the e 'le[by against Saragossa, had set out with the greater part of his army, by forced marches, towards Vit toria, in which direction he hoped to be able to inte rcept the enemy in their retreat. , T he Junta of Seville i ssue d a P roc l amation on the 'gal ult. en f orc i ng that of the of June, relativ e to a second l evy o r recru i ts for the regular army.— tbenLe persoos generally liable to service are young , bachelors, and married men or widowers with out children, b etwee n t h e ages of 16 and 45. For, the other regulations conneeled with the execution Z f this m easure, the Corregidors are referred to the clal Ordinance of Odober 27, 1800. p . 11 e crew of th e D utc h F r i gate, taken by the , h rg‘nie of , give a fair criterions of the present spirit their countrymen. The Captain, at the begin , of the aaion, intreated his officers and men to right not for buonapart e ' s G overnment, but for Dutch kollohlr A C ourt of Aldermen was summoned to meet at Guildhall yesterday but a sufficient nu m b er o f __Ald er men not attending to constitute a C ourt, t h e )rd-M a y or ordered the price of bread to be raised two assizes, or 4d. in the peck laif, to take pl;ice to - j morrow. The quartern 'loaf wheaten is then to he : sold for is. ar.d. and househoki id. THE DREADFUL FIRE. We yesterday gave a correit outline of the fatal event which has befallen Covent-Garden Theatre; 'but as the public curiosity, as well as every feeling , 'f . humanity, is interested in the melancholy affair, resume-'the subjeti, and present to our Readers OikGifesinew the several Alit:ling' circumstances Whieti - have.attended this shocking calamity. The money in the Treasury, as well-a's all the do cuments respe&ing the , Theatre, were, as we stated yesterday, preserved by the alacrity of Mr, HUGHES, : whose infirmities were wholly lost in his zeal to save the property. Hr loaded a trusty female ser vant with the money in two bags, and sent her, without any dress but , her petticoat, to Mr. BOYCE, a tax-gatherer, in York-street. On her arrival at Mr. BOYCE'S, however, and knocking at the door, the servant seeing such a figure at such an hour, refused 'admittance, supposing her a mad Woman.— The podi'iiraman, thus excluded, and fearing to in- - "1 - form the - passengers of the treasure, sat down upon 'the'bags'af the steps of the door, and there remained until the return of Mr. HUGHES;-who had originally escorted her to the door. Of all the rest of this great property, such was the -fierceness of the flames, scarcely any thing was preserved. The King's Arms, a Roman Eagle; Mother Goose, a few other pantomi mic devices and pieces of mechanism, and some pikes, halberts,.&c. used in processions, were all that were preserved. They were brought out, and laid under the Piazza, where they were huddled together, pre- Senting in the mixture a strange and whimsical ap pearance. Next tt Mr. HARRIS, Mr. KEMBLE, the other Proprietnrs'of the Theatre, the Musicians are the greatest sufferers. Mr. WARE lost a violin value 3001.- It was the only time in a space of two years that he had left it behind him. The Musi cians are. in the habit of leaving all their instru ments at the Theatre; they were .all destroyed, with all the music, and othei'appurtenances of the Orchestra, estimated at 20,0001: value. To aggra vate the loss in this department, there are no copies of many of the best pieces. All the literary pro duetionS Of the House are also destroyed, and of many, of.thern also there are no copies. Ane4jlle most distressing circumstances in this accumtiTatiOn of disasters was that which we men tioned yesterday respecting the large engine belong ing 'to the Phoenix Fire-office, starioned in the vaulted passage leading from the Piazzas in Covent Garden, to the various vomitories of the Theatre. - Eleven firemen, belonging to the Phoenix establish, inent, three laboUring people, and a generous hearted private of a Volunteer Corps, .were at work upon this engine. About seven o'clock, a dreadful crash, resembling an explosion of gunpowder, was .-heard toiproceed from the spot where they were at. work ; and'upon the multitude in the Garden run ', ning to . the place, they found the engine, and the miserable beings who surrounded it, to the number of twenty - , buried in'a heap of ruins ! Upwards of fifteen, who stood near them, were dreadfully man ; gled and 'scorched, and carried off in coaches to the nearest hospitals. The lifeless trunks of the unfurr tunate assistants at the engine were dug up about eight o'clock, and carried to Covent Garden Church yard to be owned. Among the killed, were Joseph Holmes, Jones, an apprentice at No. 5, Oxford-road ; Joseph _ and iliOvrd :c7et”tn bc../105- ing to the Piimmix Office; Crab, a butcher's boy, whose master resides in Paternoster-row; and an Officer in the Duke of Cumberland's Sharp shooters, name unknown. One of these sufferers was recognised by his sister, by means of a nutmeg grater, found in his pocket, of which she had, on the preceding day, made him a present.-01 the mangled and contused, the following expired in the course. of the day :—Richard Bird, coach-maker, John Syers, engineer of the Phoenix engine, Mr. Harris, son of au optiCian in - Bloomsbury, and a Member of the Bloomsbury Volunteee Corps, and - frtr- - James, an attorney ;',he had only arrived in :trnn. Wales about a week ago, and lodged at the house of Mr. Watkins, taylor, YOrk;street, Co vent-garden. He was brought home to his lodging, 'but had scarcely entered the shop when he expired. Amongst.those-in a dangerous state at the Hospitals are, ‘Peter Fish, fireman of she Phcenik Office: - 'A man brought into the Piazza Coffee-house, with his arm burnt, was in such agony, that, mad with pain, be tore the flesh down to the wrist. He was sent to Bartholomew's HoSpital in a deplorable state. A pillar of the balcony at the entrance to the Theatre, froD 119w-atzeet, gave way, and two Volunteers, it is said, o e . Bloomsbury Corps, were crushed to iicleath.-- It may-be seen from the above account,. that the men of th'J Phoenix Office were the principal suf ferers. On their arrival with their engine at the great door-under the Piazza, they were met by Mr. KEMBLE, who had at rived at an 'early hour, and were humanely apprized by him,•thoug,h greatly in terested in the success of their exertions, of the great danger of entering at that door. He told them that the rooms of the Shakspeare, immediately ing, were used as a warehouse to the Theatre, and were filled with powder, oil, and other very inflam mable matter, and entreated them not to , rtin any risk. These' brave and • bold fellows answered— " Where danger is, there is our duty ; " and rushed forward. Mr. JOHN JOHNSTON, a',Coinedian of in ferior order, rushed 'in along with them, and,shared their fate. A part of the Shakespeare is injured. We forgot to mention, that seven other persons were killed ¢y the fall of a wall Hart-street.. The przcise "number cannot be yet ascertained"; but, upon a moderate computatioti of the killed and wouiided, supposed that they cannot be fewer 1 1 1 ,4 P 4 1 4Y=;;,. Tr4am apprehensions were entertained for the safe ty of Drury-lane Theatre, 'as the flakes of fire were carried on by the wind with, force and in great quan tities in that dire6tion. A great • number of people mounted the roof, ready, m case of aCtual fire, to .open the large cistern of water provided there. They also stopped the windows. with wet cloths, to pre ,vent the entrance of the flakes, and thus secured, the Theatre. All the people in the neighbourhood took a similar precaution, and were employed with their servants in picking up the flakes of &re as they fell upon the roofs or in the yards. During,. the whole course of the day the engines iC'y play upon the smoking ruins ; but, alVnit nine 0% - -ioek, the tire appeared to break out .again- in the angle that the element had spared in then - turning, between Hart-street and sow-street. OLD BAILEY. It W3s, however, soon got under, and at twelve o'clock last night there was no symptom, of new Ganger, During the whole ,of the evening, and until a late hour, the neighbourhood was crowded with 'people front all parts of the town, attracted to view the ruins of an edifice which had been tOr a century a scen e 1,1 1:❑ 'tic arnuseJnent, instruction, And de= light. They did not depart until a late hour, when they went away, each anxious to carry off some little fragment of the ruins, as a memorial of this melancholy event. The .following we understand is.a more accurate account of .the'llAurance than we gave yesterday,. The estimated at t. 50,0001. of which not more than one-third was insured, as follows The Royal Exchange The Phcenik - - The Union - - The Sun - - - ,C 5,000 ti,o .0 5.0 ,o 25 „Goo Total - - - so ,ovo The ruins were still burning this ,morning, and the engines playing. • To the honour of Mr. HARRIS, the chief propNe tor, and of course the greatesesufferer by this dread ful event, it should.be mentioned, that he received the fatal tidings with the utmost fortitude, and his first inquiry was whether any- lives were lost. •- As the extent of the misfortune was not then known to his son, who informed him of it, he seemed to be ' perfedly reconciled to his losS, under a persuasion tha: nobody had fallen a victim, and when he heard all the disastrous consequences which bad occurred, he appeared to be principally affected •at the many •which it had occasioned.' It is understood that the Covent Garden Company are to peiform at,' the King's Theatre, in' the Hay tuaret, until tile commencement of the Opera sea.. son, and then to play tier four nights a week. The Proprietors of Drury-lane, it is said, have generously oft;.tred every assistance they can atford, in the use of scenery, dresses, &c. Yesterday there were, seventeen Prli'Oners tried * nine of. I.vhotn were tonvialed of felony; Viz: Elizabeth Watkins, Ann TaJor, Daniel Fergu;. son, Juzo'Nrtein, John Marini, Bro John Welch, MaybriCic; con:. .of Perjury, was sentenced to shffling, anil be transported for 'seven years Sarno day the SeNsions ended, when sentence of Death was passed on : . John Conway, for stealing 41. and upwards, of Josc-ph Francis, in his dwelling-house ; John Dob;k. son, for stealing three lambs, value 41. of Williani Small ; Charles Jackson, for robbing John Sullivan of goods ,and monies, value 61. and upwards; Tho m:is Gower, for stealing 121. and upwards, of Wil liam Rogers, ,in the dwelling-house of Joseph Hai! ; Maiy,,ifoster, for stealing goods and monies, vain., 291, and uplvards, of Joseph Noble, in the dwell' .! 7 ITO ll SC ,of „Francis Rogers ; Andrew . 1(ihd0n,,,,:- , ' . - -i-: breaking and,.entering , the dwelling-house of; - 1 . ,,,,_ mas Mano, and stealing' goods, value 31. fo : H. -- •:;:;, waids, his property ; James Watley, • for r :,:: ,:: i'.:-' , :' P.-ter Muller' on the high Way, of 61. and up cards John Palmer; for feloniously cutting and ma!roinK , William Waller, in order to prevent his la:v fel ap prehension ; Susannah Eades, for stealing goods pri vately in a shop ; Charles Taylor, for stealing goods, ' _ value 61. and upward, of Mary Ann Carey, and • goods, value 421. of George Carey, in the dwelling house of John Carey ; Thomas 1it0%(.7.1 and Thomas Smith, for Atealing goods, value i.d. and upwards, of Darcey Tattered, Esq. in 'his dwelling-house. Two were ordered to be transported tor ilfe; viz. Joel Joseph and Alexander Israel ; one for 14 years, viz. John Freeland; 3:e fur seven years, viz. Wil liam Brown, Richard Chapman,..Toseph Cook, John Morgan, John "Mackey, Evan GrAiths; Hannah Stedintin, William Reed, Matthew Cole, John- Drewitt, Thomas Butcher, Thomas Hediey, WU ham Good, alias Swinbourne, Margaret Davis, Abraham Hunter, Ann Healey, John Coo er o, Rdbert Pitcher, William Griffiths, George Anderson, W!iliam Smith, James Balchen, Jaws Gunson, Mary Dale; Erasmus Nelson, Abraham Levy, Sa n ali „; Maclenzie, Ann Gibbons, Cath e r i n e M ann , 144 i f fign : Caultord, •Michael Haughney, and Eliz. atkins.—Seventeen were ordered to be imprison ed one year in the House of CurreaiOn at Clerken -well; r ig to be imprisoned in the same Gaol for six calendar months ; i i were ordered to he imp iso led in Newgate for different periods ; six to by privately and two publicly whipped; and 49 Were discharged by proclamation. \: I.v THE THEATRE.—The Tragedy of Hamlet was re- presented last night at Drew y-lane Theatre ; but as the dreadful event at Covent-garden Theatre h a s na turally operated strongly on the public mind, there i', was by no meats a very numerous audience.—Et. - 4 LISTON' played the Hero of the Piece with his usual 1 . ,, ability. He was, in the serious passages, rather more solemn than dignified ; and was too light in ' ,these scenes which 'exhibit the playful humour of the' Pritice. On 'the whole, . however, his perform ance wagrespetlable. Mrs. CORRI, wife of one acne musical composers of that name, made her first ap pearance on Theatrical Boards, in the part of Ophe lia. Her voice is pleasing,. and she seems to be well acquainted with music. Her figure, altogether, is well adapted to the Stage, and when she is embo . dened by practice, and improved by experience, sh may prove a valuable acquisition. After the sentences were pronounced, the Court . ► - noceeded to the investigation of the following case of Pedory, which was tried by Mr. COMMON SERJEANT and a London Jury. Maybrick, a young man about 2fl, was charged with the commission of Perjury on the trial of Tolson and Lebeck, which took place ihe Ses sion of June last. rhe indi&ttuent 'comprised va rious' assignments of the Perjury, and the evidence adduced on the investigation of the case occupied the. attention of the Court from Six till half past elevCn o'clock at night. All the material assign ments of which, in the present instance, were, is op;nior.: MON SElLlzatri, incontro verit4 proved against him. _ _ - BA RitYmotip, resumes . Lis siluAtiou this season at Drury-Line Thratre. KEMBLE was once playing Hamlet; a conntryman, a novice, who aeted'Guildension, but who was a tolerable musician, on being repeatedly beseeched by Hamlet. to "play upon the pipe," at length said " Well, if your Lordship insists on it, I shall * do as weL7, as I can;" .and to the great confusion of KEN). E L Lr, and the great amusement of the audience, he li t `iyed God save the hin . bAinaav se'nnight, about nine o'clock, a man •of genteel appearance, undressed himself on the beach, under the East Cliffe, at Brighton; went into the sea, and laved in the saline waves for a considerable time, with apparently great - . satista(..tion, but when he cane oat to dress, he was chagrined at findine some thief bad taken away his small clothes, with their contents, which obliged him to walk, sans culottes, through an admiring populace, tb his lodg ings ! A blooming girl of eighteen was lately married, in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, to an amorous swain of seventy ; and iust as the happy pair were leaving the church, the bride whispering in the 'Parson's ear, facetiously observed, " It will not be long, Sir, be, fore I bring him again r At Kilmainham,' in Ireland, a Highwayman and a Cliim-iiey Sweeper were to be executed at tie same time f&ir , varions •depredations. The dashing.:ilicc heath teeing his honour contaminated by being asso ciated with Rich a vulgar companion on the Scat- • fold, indignantly exclaimed—" Get farther off, you Mondav a Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of a little black Dog!"—To which tthe Sooiy Gentleman i'4o4aitU , Of'Mr.,Solly-, whorwas by being ,thro•Nn . archly replied—" Pray, Sir, c.s mach : from a Chaise, near Ha'ckney Church, - while riding to be here as you?" ' ; the horse took fright, and by his The Cornwall County Meeting' on Saturday shaft.broke, and the man standing and night, at Bodmin, was very fully and respeelably Pullin cVith great force, broke the other shaft, when, attended, and an Address to his Majesty was voted , by one sadden plunge of the horse, it threw the unanimously. • t chaise backward, and - the man pitched on hi s h ea d • The Truro Infantry have received a Ci rcu l ar L e t- ; and, spoke no mor e . H e h as l e f t a w if e an d f our ter from Government, info rm i ng t h em t h at their children. Verdict—Accidental Death. unconditional offer to become Local Militia has been FLYING BiuDGE--Last week was launched from accepted, and that their services as Volunteers will • D Mr uLACKaURN'S dock-yard, in Catwater, a Fly cease on the 24th instant. •• big-Bridge, built to transport carriag e s, loaded wag - A volume of the Napoleon Commercial Code of • gons, carts, cattle, goodS, and pa s se n g ers across the Catwater, at Prince Rock, .near Ply m outh.—Ths Laws, printed in stereotype by DIE OT, in Par,is, useful and ingenious m a c hi ne i s ctihstruded for Lord was sent to Madrid with King JOE. When .he fled fromAite latter place, he left this precious morsel Botta INGDON. The principal dimensions are as fel (6000 copies) b e hind him; preferring the reg a li a of; low :—Length 73 feet ; breadth I3i feet ; depth 4 Spain to the regulations of NAPOLEON the great . fee t . And it is to be conduct e d fr om one s id e t h e One copy, together with. several valuables, becaus e curious Spanish books, were received in London a water to the other by a Cable suspended across, along' ' few days ago. which the bridge traverses, and the carriages, & c . drive in at one end and out at the other. A new ,A bet for 2.0 t) guineas will be decided on Saturday road •is made from the western landing place, to morning. —Mr. Tribe, backneyman, in the Hay- i communicate .with the new road leading into Ply market, has engaged to find four horses to go with a mouth, and another road is made to lead into the chaise from the Stable-yard, St. James's, to Houn- interior from the eastern landing place, where also a slow, in 45 minutes; they have permission to go commodious inn and good stables are ere led. By through the Park, and it is expected the liackneyman i crossing the Catwater there, the distance to and from will win. They start at six o'clock. • •Pitymotith to Brixton, Yealrnpton, Ermington, A Poney started from the Plough, Cheltenham, Vodbury, Kingsbridge, and places adjacent, is on Wednesday last, to go to the Bell Inn, Glouces- , shortened seven miles. ter, a distance of nine miles and three-quarters, in half an hour, which it accomplished in 45 seconds within the time, carrying Mr. Kingston, a gentle man riding 13 stone and an half. Considerable bets were 'depending : 25 guineas to five were betted against the Poney at starting. Monday se'nnight was fdund drowned, in a small inlet of the sea, near Arne, in Purbeck, the body of the Rev. John Edwards, of Crediton, Devon. He left home in a deranged state of mind, and eluded the diligent search of his friends. He was :i bathing the day before in the river Frome, a few miles trern Dorchester. A Coroner's Inquest sat on the body, and brought in their verdict-46/04d by accident. Mt•. ALLY exerted . his ingenuity and eloqucllce iu ktvour of the Defendant. After a long, able, and discriminating charge from Mr, COMMON SERJEANT, the Jury immediately pro nounced the Prisoner' Guilty. Mr. KsoLLYs then expatiated on the 'enormity of the Prisoner's offence, and concluded by delivering the judgment of the Court upon him,• which was seven gears . transportation. At tfc'ih'e o'clock the Sessions were adjourned till .WethieSday the 26th of OEtober. Vesterday morning, abdut three o'clock, some thieves attempted to rob. a silversmith's shop in the Borough. They had succeeded so tar as to cut a square hole, about eight inches wide, in the7sbuttcrs. But fortunately an appreutice, .who lay in a room adjoining the shop, heard them, and gave the alarm, on • which the villains decamped. CoRN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 2 1 .—There is a short supply of Wheat today, but, waiting arrivals, sales are heavy, fine Old Samples keep their price, but the New of inferior quality are cheaper; very little Barley, which with Malt are at little variation ; White Pease are higher; Beans of each kind rather dearer ; there are large quantities of Oats, and this trad6 is lower; prices of Flour at our list quotation. Wheat . - 7os a 85s a 95s od Tick Beazis .. 585 a 645 oa Rine ditto - ; 965 a IpoS mo t. Oats ' - • 34s a 36s a 38s ost Rye - .; , sos a s;s, od Poland ditto 39$ a 4os od Barley - . 4es a 4 65 od '!gape ——s a 42$ od Malt. - - 725 a liDs -:1 1 Sec..d . 401 a 431 -- ed White Pease 12c3 a 1355 ed 1 Fine Flour . Bos a 855 (ct Grey ditto ' . 6os z 64s od I Secvnds . -75 s a 8.)3 ,?( 4 . Brans . - ; 6as aVs cd -- 111 P I